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    Vocabulary Coverage
    (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%)
    Conventional Readability Formula
    Title Author Translator Born Died 90% 95% 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% Word Count (Pages) Words per Sentence Syllables per Word Fog Index Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid
    Details The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    Details Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily 1818 1848 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 114539
    (286)
    16.9 1.46 10.6 65.8 8.3
    Details The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)
    27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    Details Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Var Sanborn, Alvan Francis 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 114300
    (285)
    24.2 1.64 16.2 43.1 13.3
    Details The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 114027
    (285)
    17.3 1.47 10.8 65.1 8.5
    Details El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)
    19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) 1873 1930 3000 5000 7000 11000 15000 23000 113094
    (282)
    27.4 1.61 17.3 43.2 14.0
    Details Captain Blood Sabatini, Rafael 1875 1950 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 112331
    (280)
    14.5 1.48 10.2 66.7 7.6
    Details The Frontier in American History Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861 1932 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 112204
    (280)
    24.6 1.7 17.3 38.2 14.0
    Details The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred Morgan, William 1774 1826 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 112150
    (280)
    13.8 1.51 10.3 65.4 7.6
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details The Arabian Nights Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 111534
    (278)
    23.9 1.4 12.9 63.8 10.3
    Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111491
    (278)
    14.1 1.44 9.1 71.0 6.9
    Details A Short History of the World Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 111386
    (278)
    20.1 1.68 15.2 44.4 12.1
    Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111170
    (277)
    14.2 1.44 9.2 71.0 6.9
    Details The Yellow Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 111039
    (277)
    21.0 1.33 10.6 73.2 8.3
    Details The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 111009
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 20000 110968
    (277)
    42.0 1.3 18.2 54.1 16.2
    Details The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 110838
    (277)
    18.2 1.48 11.5 63.5 8.9
    Details Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Common, Thomas 1844 1900 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 19000 110254
    (275)
    15.5 1.48 10.1 66.0 7.9
    Details The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Wayburn, Ned 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 108666
    (271)
    22.1 1.55 14.4 53.4 11.3
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)
    18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 108262
    (270)
    24.5 1.34 12.1 68.4 9.8
    Details The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)
    26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    Details The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine 1870 1922 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 107279
    (268)
    16.5 1.47 10.2 66.1 8.1
    Details Essays in Experimental Logic Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 6000 7000 9000 15000 107047
    (267)
    25.9 1.71 18.1 36.3 14.6
    Details On War — Volume 1 Clausewitz, Carl von Graham, J. J., Colonel 1780 1831 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 106755
    (266)
    34.3 1.59 20.0 37.3 16.6
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details The Aeneid English Virgil Dryden, John 70BC (1631) 19BC (1700) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 23000 106024
    (265)
    24.5 1.34 11.8 68.2 9.8
    Details Allan Quatermain Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 105546
    (263)
    24.1 1.43 13.0 61.5 10.7
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)
    21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    Details The Career of Katherine Bush Glyn, Elinor 1864 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 19000 105388
    (263)
    17.8 1.46 11.2 65.4 8.6
    Details Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave Ball, Charles 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 105338
    (263)
    35.5 1.43 17.9 49.7 15.1
    Details Pascal's Pensées Pascal, Blaise 1623 1662 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 105254
    (263)
    14.7 1.47 10.6 67.6 7.5
    Details House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 105173
    (262)
    22.8 1.54 14.1 53.6 11.4
    Details The Sea Wolf London, Jack 1876 1916 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 105143
    (262)
    15.0 1.43 9.1 70.8 7.1
    Details Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen, Thorstein 1857 1929 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 19000 105017
    (262)
    33.7 1.76 21.7 24.1 18.3
    Details Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 104617
    (261)
    11.9 1.54 9.6 64.9 7.2
    Details The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) 1873 (1873) 1897 (1963) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 104435
    (261)
    20.1 1.43 11.4 65.5 9.1
    Details The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) 1861 1933 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 104277
    (260)
    20.9 1.61 14.4 49.3 11.6
    Details Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 17000 104244
    (260)
    21.5 1.37 11.1 69.0 9.0
    Details Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Berens, E.M. 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 104008
    (260)
    23.7 1.62 16.1 45.3 12.8
    Details The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 103757
    (259)
    14.9 1.43 9.3 70.8 7.1
    Details Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103706
    (259)
    36.5 1.51 19.2 42.3 16.4
    Details The Bontoc Igorot Jenks, Albert Ernest 1869 1953 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 103603
    (259)
    22.1 1.53 13.3 55.2 11.0
    Details Kim Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 3000 5000 10000 15000 16000 22000 103135
    (257)
    12.6 1.42 7.8 73.9 6.1
    Details Father Goriot Balzac, Honoré de Marriage, Ellen 1799 1850 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103094
    (257)
    15.2 1.44 9.6 70.0 7.3
    Details Riders of the Purple Sage Grey, Zane 1872 1939 3000 5000 9000 15000 24000 24000 102465
    (256)
    12.4 1.39 7.8 76.5 5.7
    Details Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) 1850 1896 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 102413
    (256)
    19.1 1.47 12.0 62.6 9.3

    Notes:

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    Some of the born/died information of the authors and the translators of the wource data, catalog.rdf provided by the Project Gutenberg, have interrogation marks, which were stripped off in the table of this website for ease of processing the data.
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    The "Pages" shown in the parentheses at the "Word Count" are the results of the division of the "Word Count" by 400, where this website assumes a page of a book includes 400 words.